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Students’ Engineering Chops to be Showcased at ‘Innovate to Grow’
May 10, 2017
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Is it still possible to build a better mouse trap? Engineering students at UC Merced think so. “Eraticate” — a fitting name for a group focused on mouse trap optimization — isn’t concerned with the cliché... Read More
NSF Grant Brings Powerful New Microscope to Campus
May 9, 2017
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UC Merced added a powerful new tool to the campus’s Imaging and Microscopy Facility. The newly acquired Zeiss LSM 880 is a state-of-the-art laser scanning confocal microscope that represents a huge leap forward for the university... Read More
Student Speakers Share Desire to Make a Difference
May 9, 2017
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Jocelyne Fadiga and Havilliah “Jake” Malsbury traveled from different worlds to study at UC Merced. The youngest sister of 13 children, Fadiga grew up in Côte d’Ivoire (the Ivory Coast) in West Africa before immigrating... Read More
New Collaboration Focuses on Refugee Stories, Experiences and Humanity
May 8, 2017
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Often, when people talk about or study refugees, the focus is on policy, rescue operations or terrorism. Rarely is the conversation centered on refugees as human beings. But a new collaboration among five UC campuses — including UC... Read More
‘Water in the Balance’ Highlights UC Merced Research
May 5, 2017
Filming in Yosemite
Water is a delicate balancing act in California. When the scales tip in the wrong direction, the consequences can have national effects. Nobody knows this better than UC Water Co-Director Joshua Viers. “More than half of the nation... Read More
Shakespeare, Muir Come Alive in Yosemite for Earth Day
May 4, 2017
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The works of Shakespeare, perhaps more so than any in the western canon, have been subject to reinterpretation and reappraisal by generations of artists, scholars and laypeople. Some, like Verdi’s opera “Otello,” are... Read More
Class of 2017 Shows Anything is Possible at UC Merced
May 3, 2017
Commencement is May 13 and 14
The newest campus in the University of California system, UC Merced is a campus that attracts leaders — individuals who enjoy the challenge of paving the way for others to follow — and the Class of 2017 is no different. On... Read More
Students Help Campus Earn Latest LEED Certification
May 1, 2017
The LEED Lab is a multidisciplinary, hands-on course offered to undergraduate students who are interested in sustainable design and operations.
UC Merced’s Classroom and Office Building (COB) has achieved a silver rating from the LEED Building Operations and Maintenance (O+M) sustainability program, the campus’s first certification to come from the LEED Lab Engineering... Read More
National Book Award Winner to Give Talk on Racism
April 28, 2017
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Ibram X. Kendi, one of the nation’s most prolific and accomplished young professors of race, is this spring’s guest speaker as part of the Chancellor’s Dialogue on Diversity and Interdisciplinarity lecture series.... Read More
Mike Barbee Named New Cross Country Coach
April 28, 2017
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UC Merced’s Athletics Department has hired Mike Barbee as men's and women's cross country coach. A 14-year coaching veteran with experience at the NCAA, community college and high school levels, Barbee joins the Bobcats as... Read More
MACES Hosts Big Bash to Highlight Tiny Technology
April 27, 2017
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MACES, the Merced nAnomaterials Center for Energy and Sensing, held its second annual open house on April 19, showcasing student research and highlighting the center’s connection to NASA. The daylong event kicked off with remarks... Read More
Community Members Aid Cutting-Edge Research in ‘BioBlitz’ Project
April 26, 2017
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When scientists at UC Merced seek to better understand California’s biodiversity, they turn to cutting-edge genomics. They also turn to their neighbors. On a sunny Saturday in April, scientists joined forces with members of the... Read More
Students Recognized at Leadership Awards Event
April 24, 2017
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Student leaders, advisors, campus organizations and athletes were recognized at the annual the Margo F. Souza Student Leadership Center 2017 Leadership Awards celebration on April 23. A campuswide selection committee chose the winners for... Read More
Applied Math Conference Highlights Student Research
April 20, 2017
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The UC Merced student chapter of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) hosted the second annual Central Valley Regional SIAM Student Chapter Conference on April 7. In only its second year, the conference attracted 85... Read More
Grad Students Pitch Their Research in GradSlam! Contest
April 19, 2017
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After a fierce round of competition during the GradSlam! finals on April 13, environmental systems student Byran Fuhrmann emerged as UC Merced’s new GradSlam! campus champion. For winning the competition — in which graduate... Read More
Pesquisador do Programa Fulbright em Busca de 'Ciência Perdida' no Brasil
April 17, 2017
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Por James Leonard, Comunicações Universitárias Traduzido por Gracy Durães Mantoan Chris Fradkin, professor e ex-aluno da Universidade da Califórnia em Merced, está indo para o Brasil em busca de "ciência perdida." O termo,... Read More
Fulbright Scholar in Search of ‘Lost Science’ in Brazil
April 17, 2017
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Chris Fradkin, a UC Merced lecturer and alumnus, is heading to Brazil in search of “lost science.” The term, first coined in 1995 in a Scientific American article by W. Wayt Gibbs, refers to the untold amount of viable... Read More
Campus to Showcase Sustainability Initiatives During Earth Week
April 13, 2017
Earth Week is April 17-21.
Earth Week is UC Merced’s chance to highlight some of the ways the campus community is committed to being good stewards of the environment. From working to divert all waste from the landfill to operating smart energy-monitoring... Read More
Campus Mainstay Chou Her Named Chief of Police
April 12, 2017
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The University of California, Merced, announced today (April 12) the appointment of Chou Her to chief of police, effective immediately. Her, the first person of Hmong descent to lead a UC public safety agency, brings nearly two decades of... Read More
Study Identifies Effects of EU Expansion on Labor, Research
April 12, 2017
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Rather than a brain-drain, the 13-country European Union (EU) expansion initiated more than a decade ago triggered a brain-reconfiguration — the rising circulation of knowledge through the increased mobility of highly skilled workers... Read More